Final words of the defendants awaiting the verdict at the trial on November 13
The fourteen defendants in the trial of the November 13 attacks present before the Special Assize Court in Paris have one last opportunity to speak on Monday before the professional judges begin their deliberations and deliver their expected verdict Wednesday evening. The final hearing of this trial, which began in September, is the longest in post-war French criminal judicial history, and is due to start at 09:30. As provided for by law, each accused will be invited to speak by President Jean-Louis Périès. Almost silent during the investigation, Salah Abdeslam — the only surviving member of the Commandos who caused the deaths of 130 people in Paris and Saint-Denis on 13 November 2015 — a talked a lot during the hearing.

Sophie Le Tan case: Jean-Marc Reiser's trial begins in Strasbourg
The trial of Jean-Marc Reiser, the presumed murderer of Sophie Le Tan, begins on Monday at the Assises du Bas-Rhin, with a twisted sexagenarian who took more than two years to confess to the murder in 2018 of the 20-year-old student whose dismembered corpse was discovered by chance in the Forest. Assassination with a trap carefully prepared to attract young single women looking for an apartment? Or, as he maintains, murder in anger after refused advances? The jurors, who will be drawn by lot at the start of the hearing at 14:00, will have until 5 July to try to understand what happened on 7 September 2018 in Schiltigheim, a municipality bordering Strasbourg. Described by her family as an uneventful, serious and kind young girl, Sophie Le Tan disappeared on her 20th birthday on September 8, 2018.

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